Cummins has unveiled its brand-new European Master Rebuild Centre for high horsepower engines in Krakow, Poland, the first of its kind in Europe. The company invested $10 million in the development of the Centre, which will remanufacture Cummins high horsepower engines with displacements of 19 to 78 litres, and in the 450-to-3500-horsepower range. This includes Cummins’ renowned QSK19, QSK38 and…
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Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court has overturned a June ruling that an environmental permit for the Turow lignite mine should be suspended, reported Reuters. The open-pit mine, which is owned by Poland’s state-run power company PGE, supplies 8% of the country’s energy. “There is no doubt that energy security is … a constitutional value, because it is one of the guarantees…
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Coal miner JSW has confirmed the death of four workers, one of them a rescue team member, at the Pniówek mine in Poland following a methane explosion during the early hours of 20 April local time. The incident occurred just after midnight at the underground operation in the southern region of the country, when 42 workers were at a depth…
Read MoreA number of miners in Poland have taken a position of blocking deliveries of coal at state-run power plants in the country, demanding an increase in pay for their work. According to the Associated Press, protesters from Polish Coalmining Group’s Halemba operation and other mines in the southern Silesia region have been stopping trains as they are ordering higher pay…
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